Mitchell Alderson

Technical Creative @Inngest • 15+ yr Software Engineer

[Mitchell Alderson @mitchalderson]

@leviqiao @dotgil What stands out to you the most?

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There is a lot of talk about "long-horizon agents, " AI that continues to work on a task over an extended period of time.

This, to me, seems no different than the long-running jobs that engineers are already familiar with, and the pitfalls they can bring.

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I feel like model releases are getting incredibly anti-climactic…

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Yep, spot on! I'm thinking the same way, to the extent that in Inngest runs, I specify a separate failure function that evaluates and cleans up when necessary.

Thanks for your take on this, i'm wanting to understand patterns that are emerging with longer running processes/agents!

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@YashHustle_22 Organic activation and/or use expansion. If the product is truly good, people will find more ways to use it on their own.

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@Tech_p001 Getting debug flashbacks now 😅 That's why I prefer modern event-based workflow orchestration these days, much looser coupling with the same benefits.

I'm biased toward Inngest, but BullMQ and Temporal would work as well.

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@mayuri_3015 homebrew, then everything after that is package managed 😄

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@srikat @jason_cxyz @luizfper @ThePrimeagen Interesting, you convinced me! 😄

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@srikat @jason_cxyz @luizfper @ThePrimeagen You are the second person to say this! What do you love about it specifically? I'm intreaged!

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@bradey @jason_cxyz @luizfper @ThePrimeagen I use Debian/Ubuntu a ton managing servers, that is my goto option, but Omarchy sounds cool! I might have to spin it up on my trash bench machine just to try it. 👀

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@frederikoc @ThePrimeagen Ah! See that seems like a better option, with the discrete GPU...

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@jason_cxyz @luizfper @ThePrimeagen 👀 So next question, what distro is best for day to day work (programming/infra admin, etc)

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Right on, do you think that both of these problems could be solved by checkpointing? Or is the likelyhood of the state not being fresh a problem that can't live between retries?
Partial work is an interesting one; do we just retry, or do we need rollback procedures to "undo" work?

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@luizfper @ThePrimeagen I considered the Framework, but parts of it (the screen) still look like a laptop from 2015; I also heard that the keyboard flexes a lot, which would drive me crazy!

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We've been secretly working on a super cool project at @Inngest for the past few weeks, and it launches today! Teaming up with @codetv_dev, we challenged a group of brilliant engineers to build an app that does work while you're away.
https://t.co/Y5OCvFFxlI

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I'll be giving a lightning talk at @AIconference 2026 in San Francisco, Sept 29 – Oct 1: 120+ speakers, 5 tracks, 5,500+ AI builders.

Use code "NETWORK25" for a discount: https://t.co/EjRJaYjDRr #theaiconference #taic2026

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DevRel folks, how do you consistently come up with novel code examples for your content, webinars, etc.?

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@mikeknoop Please tell business leadership this, because the average IC engineer is living through hell right now. - an engineer turned marketer

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@andrew_n_carr I’ve been on LinkedIn for a long time; got quite a bit of work from it; but I’ve heard many times now that X is where its at for building a tech audience, any tips? 😅

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@v0xium I felt the exact same way at my previous job. I built the platform by hand pre-ai; an extremely high throughput data ingestion system with finely tuned memory management- just to be run ragged by leadership as soon as AI hit the scene.